Blues-Rock: Secret Sauce

Spice up your blues rock rhythm, soloing and improvisational chops

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Jeff Scheetz

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blues, blues-rock

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About this course

Top studio, touring and recording artist, Jeff Scheetz cooked up five essential formulas for busting out of that proverbial rut. Spinning your wheels with those same old pentatonic licks? No worries ... sprinkle a little of Jeff's "secret sauce" into your blues-rock bag for ear-to-ear grins!

Scheetz travels the world over demonstrating his "secret sauce" in private standing-room-only clinics. The collection of blues-rock video guitar lessons in Jeff's Blues Rock: Secret Sauce course equips you with five essential concepts and techniques that you can apply in any blues-rock setting.
Blues Rock: Secret Sauce teaches you how to slip "outside" and back again and how to incorporate and pull off intervallic lines in your solos. You'll also learn the ins and outs of dynamic phrasing, melodic playing and modal playing -- all with an emphasis on how to create and play tasty, original solos and comps.

Ready to bust that rut and majorly spice up your blues-rock bag? Grab a stool at the counter and pour a few heaping servings of Blues Rock: Secret Sauce on your plate!

Five blues rock instrumentals are broken up into four rhythm and four solo lessons. 40 video lessons in all.
The rhythm lessons demonstrate the parts, then presents and examines the "secret sauce" for that part.
The solo lessons demonstrate the solos, then breaks them down, emphasizing the "secret sauce" elements.
Each pair of lessons (rhythm and solo) feature a corresponding backing track to practice over.
Text descriptions provide overviews of the tune along with recipes for creating your own "secret sauce".

What you'll learn

Apply interval-based thinking to all scale positions
Navigate wider intervals across the fretboard
Create more interesting melodic lines by avoiding stepwise motion
Develop speed and accuracy with slides and position shifts
When to use dominant pentatonic vs minor pentatonic

Release date: 09/29/2006 • 2h 50m runtime

intermediate late intermediate guitar electric guitar rhythm soloing

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Sample lessons

Electric Groove Solo

Breakdown

Electric Groove Solo

Variations

Electric Groove Solo

Extended Performance

Electric Groove Solo

Breakdown

Electric Groove Solo

Variations

Electric Groove Solo

Extended Performance

What's included

60 lessons • 15 charts • 10 Jam Tracks

Electric Groove Solo

Blues Rock: mp4:secret Sauce teaches you how to slip "outside" and back again and how to incorporate and pull off intervallic lines in your solos. You'll also learn the ins and outs of dynamic phrasing, melodic playing and modal playing -- all with an emphasis on creating tasty, original solos and comps. Ready to bust that rut and majorly spice up your blues-rock bag? Grab a stool at the counter and pour a few heaping servings of my mp4:secret sauce on your plate! We work thorugh five blues rock instrumentals broken up into four rhythm and four solo lessons. I'll demonstrate the parts, then present the "mp4:secret sauce" for that part. Enjoy! Let's dig in to some outside playing.

Electric Groove Solo

In this solo, we're looking at several ways to make your playing sound a bit "outside", or in other words, sound like you are using notes that are not in the normal scale or key you are in. Players like Jimmy Herring use this technique to spice up their playing - it keeps you from sounding like you're stuck in the pentatonic rut repeating the same licks all the time. Practice the riffs and work on expanding your ear by listening to "out" players to get yourself more familiar with the different sounds. Start small, don't try to go "out" on every phrase - just go a little out there for a monet or two and then come back home again!

Electric Groove Solo

Electric Groove Rhythm

This rhythm has a Hendrix vibe and would go over great at any local jam night. If you play this rhythm for your guitar buddies to jam over-- they should love you for life! Keep focused on the groove - timing is everything when you are playing this kind of riff, just make sure you are in sync with the drums and you'll be fine. Try experimenting by turning your volume up or down until you "feel" the groove that's right for you.

Electric Groove Rhythm

Remember to "hear" the solo in your head even when you're just jamming on the rhythm. This way you start to develop the ability to hear both parts, which will really come in handy and help your playing mature. You can play this tune with a heavy tone or change it up and make it more of a slightly dirty blues sound - it works both ways!

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Raoul M.

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04/18/18

Definitely one of my favourite courses of Truefire. I realy like Jeff's phrasing in this course and he gives you a wide variaty of styles, I would really recommend this course to anyone who wants to give his blues chops some extra flavour. Well done mr Scheetz

Dan D.

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08/27/14

Want to add a little something extra to your repetoire? Check this course out! Jam-packed AND affordable...One of the best!